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A Thanksgiving Prayer
Holy and Loving One, you have brought us into a good land– a land of lakes and hills, forests, streams and meadows, a land of orchards full of peaches, pears, cherries and apples–so many varieties of apples! fields full … Continue reading
Fresh Air
Smoke…too dense to go out;too unsafe to play ball.So we sat in the house.and did nothing at all. All we could do was tosit!sit!sit!sit!and we did not like it.not one little bit.–Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat (adapted) Then … Continue reading
Posted in Creation, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Big Yellow Taxi, Daniel X. O'Neil, Dr Seuss, Esther Hizsa, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Joni Mitchell, Kalamalka Lake, Living from the Heart, Okanagan Rail Trail, pistachio, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, The Cat in the Hat
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Save Us
Yesterday, we returned home from camping in the Kootenays.Today, I’m baking bread, and Fred is vacuuming out the car.I wish he could vacuum up the smoke and everyone were safe at home. One hundred and four wildfires are actively … Continue reading
Posted in community, compassion, Creation, Poetry, Prayer, Reflections
Tagged Bowen Assman, Bradley Creek Fire, Castanet, Deuteronomy 31:6, Esther Hizsa, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Liam Phair, Living from the Heart, Psalm 10:1, Psalm 16, Psalm 16:10, Qilpituk Creek, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Vernon fire
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This Is Me Whole
The word for this new year that came to you –of all the words, this one and of all people, you– what if it isn’t what you should be but what you already are? What if it isn’t what you should do but what God is already … Continue reading
Falling in Love
Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quite absolute, final way … Fall in Love, stay in love, and it will decide everything. –Joseph Whelan, SJ I need to find and fall in love … Continue reading
Posted in compassion, Creation, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Alfalfa, Alice Walker, Church of the Wild, Esther Hizsa, Falling in Love, Grey Canal Trail, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Joseph Whelan, Living from the Heart, Michael Major, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Victoria Loorz
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